Information Smog
Peter Williams Lount addresses what Birdman's Land calls OO's Achilles Heel:
"When everyone defines their own objects, then all [Object Oriented programming] does is bog you down trying to convert between two mismatched items."
I don't think this problem is specific to OO at all; it's a general domain level problem that has cropped up in many places (how many people have tried to define a generic "Person" object or data structure, for instance?). Peter's got a long dissertation on that subject; have a look
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Enough of this
[Hmmm...] December 4, 2004 15:32:57.818
It's not objects, it's messages.
...and not just in software, either.
[Jerry] December 7, 2004 15:04:47.660
Just returned from a trip to Europe. Power plug, anyone? Don't get me started. It turns out that this time around (being born there and having gone back many times before), it was first time I had all plugs for all countries. :-)